Legal responses to wife assault : current trends and evaluation

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    • Hilton, N. Zoe

書誌事項

Legal responses to wife assault : current trends and evaluation

edited by N. Zoe Hilton

Sage Publications, 1993

  • : cloth
  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes

内容説明・目次

内容説明

An increase in the legal response to wife assault is evident in North America, largely in reaction to earlier calls for greater responsiveness by the legal system. However--not one change has occurred without controversy. Legal Responses to Wife Assault offers in-depth coverage of four major themes: historical framework of legal response to wife assault; police attitudes and action (or inaction); prosecution, mediation, and treatment within the court system; and victims as defendants and participants in the legal system. Chapters examine past and present policies of specific branches of the legal system, discuss the merits and demerits of those approaches, and explore implications for the future. The authors not only pull together recent evaluation research in an accessible form, but they highlight their own work as well. Human services and legal professionals, as well as students and researchers in these areas, will find the book invaluable.

目次

PART ONE: OVERVIEW Introduction - N Zoe Hilton Husbands Who Assault - Daniel G Saunders Multiple Profiles Requiring Multiple Responses PART TWO: POLICE Police Intervention and Public Opinion - N Zoe Hilton The Impact of Police Laying Charges - Peter G Jaffe et al Irreconcilable Differences - Kathleen J Ferraro and Lucille Pope Battered Women, Police, and the Law PART THREE: COURTS The Criminal Prosecution of Wife Assaulters - David A Ford and Mary Jean Regoli Process, Problems, and Effects Family Courts, Marital Conflict Mediation, and Wife Assault - Desmond Ellis Court-Mandated Treatment of Men Who Assault Their Partner - L Kevin Hamberger and James E Hastings Issues, Controversies, and Outcomes PART FOUR: VICTIMS Battered Women as Defendants - Lenore E A Walker Self-Defense Jury Instructions in Trials of Battered Women Who Kill Their Partner - Alan J Tomkins et al PART FIVE: SUMMARY Legal Responses to Wife Assault - Ronald Roesch, Stephen D Hart and Laurene J Wilson Future Prospects for Intervention and Evaluation

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